1. Wilson, War and Peace pg. 301-309
CH 10.3

2. Essential Question 11/6/15 What were the M.A.I.N causes of WWI?
Explain HOW they were main causes.

3. Americans Affect the End of War and Peace 1
Americans Affect the End of War and Peace 1. Strengthen Allies; Doughboys were energized and fresh v. years of fighting 2. Fourteen Points (Treaty of Versailles)

4. Allies Counteract To U-Boats; Convoy Tactics, Successful
Allies Counteract To U-Boats; Convoy Tactics, Successful? Russia Stops Fighting War (1917)  Vladimir Lenin & Communist Revolution Treaty of Brest U.S Arrives to France in June 1917 (Doughboys)  Weakens Enemy; “fresh” U.S v. Tired enemy ** Know distinguished Doughboys from YOUR Reading! (pg. 303)** African Americans in WWI; 369th Infantry Unit

5. War Ends; Germany Surrenders in France  11. 11
War Ends; Germany Surrenders in France  ; Casualties (5m Allies, 8m Central & 6.5m civilians) Peace Without Victory  No official winner; Peace is the REAL victory Fourteen Points; Aims, Self Determination; Only agreed to the League of Nations; What about U.S? Treaty of Versailles; Wilson goes himself, Doesn’t take (R) Henry Cabot Lodge; why?

6. Outcome; Allies  Germany must pay reparations; no to everything on 14 Points –BUT- League of Nations Americans on the L.O.N; Irreconcilables v. Reservationists (Henry Cabot Lodge) Power of Congress Would be Weakened Wilson Campaigns  L.O.N Created –but- U.S does NOT join

7. Effects of War pg
10.4

8. Social; Deadly Influenza (Bird Flu, Kills millions), Rights of Minorities Questioned Political; Return to Simpler Times, Isolationism, Red Scare (against communists & anarchists) Economic; Rising Inflation, Job Competition

9. Red Scare; Lenin “Communism is the Answer”  Violent Radicals & Labor Unions Attorney General Mitchell Palmer Attempts to Stop Communism; Palmer Raids Attacked Civil Liberties  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Sacco and Vanzetti Case; Paid with their lives for being Italian.

10. Return to Simpler Times (Normalcy) ; Election of 1920  Warren Harding U.S Now World Power; Economic leaders, new territories (imperialism) Creditor Nation; countries owe us MORE money than we ever owed them

11. Inflation; Needs for Consumer Goods  Few in Circulation  High Demand  Prices Skyrocket Labor Unrest; Men Return from War  Job Competition, Low Wages  Unable to purchase necessities  Strikes Will be followed by an economic boom (The Roaring 20’s, ) Other Worldly Changes Post WWI European Nations  Economically and Politically Weakened  Rise of Dictatorships in 1930s “War to End All Wars”…. Until WWII